Teaching With Tension: A National Election, A Pandemic, State-Sanctioned Violence and Strategies for Talking about Race in Our Current Moment addresses how attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for university faculty. In this webinar, faculty discuss strategies for addressing hot-button topics in the classroom. Through small group discussion, participants will exchange strategies and create dialogue about the struggles and joys of teaching topics that address racial difference and teaching in racially diverse spaces.

Facilitators: Dr. Cassander L. Smith, co-editor of Teaching with Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and Dr. Mary Meares, associate professor, Communication and Information Sciences and facilitator for UA Faculty Learning Community “Communicating About Race and Diversity”.